Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-29
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WOMAN AND HOME.
WHY EGYPTIAN PRlNCESSES WERE
FAMOUS FOR THEIR BEAUTY.

Treatment Of the Croup-Women Of Fine
Temper-A HindoO Home-The Odd and
End Talent-HOme Made Remedies.
CiviIity-The Homestead.
1.-THE bath of Isis has been known for
twenty-five or thirty years." said an amateur
Psychologist. ut was one Of the best pieces
of translation and detective worl. that Seyf-
furth ever did You should write to Samuel
Birch, of the British museum, and get him to
tell the story of how it was discovered from
three pieces of papyri in three different mu-
seums, that seemed to have no connection,
and two of which were in the hieratic writing.
The Egyptian princesses were renowned for
their beauty above all che women of the
earth from the earliest records down to Cleo
patra's time AS beautiful as princess Of
Egypt was the superlative of comparison.
No women in the world ever had such COM
plexions or such skins, and there is nothing in
the world to-day to compare with the skins of
mummies of women taken from the tOmbs
This distinction lasted over period of 5000
years. and was commonly attributed to the
bath of ISIS which was preserved for them
more owing to inheritance and the climate,
united to perfect health and phenomenal
cleanliness, than to the lotion. Yes, the lotion
had something to do with it; but anybody
can test for themselves how much
There never was any secret about its COM
ponents. 1t was made from lotus water and
the adipocere Of a rabbit. which was a symbol
of the air The bath had a phallic meaning
1t wa. the marriage Of air and water, through
the lctus. The trouble was to get the adj
pocero. None but the Memphian and Salsan
priests knew boIT to convert the dead rabbit
into adipocere. This secret they kept, and to
this day it is not known how they did it, al
though there are a dozen ways now by which
it can be done The lotus water was made by
distillatiOn, as rose water is now made, and
was in as common use among the Egyptian
women as rose water is with the American
The adipocere was prepared in some way by
which the saccharized oil was extracted, max
ing it Identical with our glycerine, by reinov-
ing the waxy portion Of the fatty matter
If the bath was used by any of the Byzantine
expresses, they probably used the adipocere
known to them, which was not Of rabbit, but
Of human beings and horses. 1t could not
have been unrefined and mixed with lotus
water in the waxy state 1t was better than
nothing, perhaps
How is all this krowns Liebig took the
trouble to verify it, to settle the disputes about
tho TRANSACTIONS. Lotus water is easy enough
to get, as it is a regular preparation in the
east for tho skin, corresponding to Florida
water and bay rum with u.s. He took the
trouble to make the bath first with rabbit adj
pocere, and then with the refined product, its
sweet oil, SO that he obtained the identical
bath of Isis have full account of it
somewhere, and of his report. He gave it to
his friends to experiment with, and they found
the former good and the latter excellent. He
afterward made it from our rose water and
glycerine, and this was much better than
either of the others. We do not know much
more about astronomy than the Egyptians, if
we know SO much, but in chemistry we beat
them out of sight.
"The proportionsl They vary. To keep
the skin soft, one-third of glycerine to two
thirds of rose water, and this was probably
the proportion in the bath of ISIS as its
symbol was thus divided; but Liebig's ex-
periments showed that half and half were
about the proper proportions when bringing
the skin into condition. He made eight COM
binations, each of different proportions, and
the simplest was the best
"Of course 1 use it. Ten cents worth lasts
me a month, as l use it only on my hands and
at night. You see for yourself how tran
sparent and white and soft it keeps the skin
Mine is merely five cents worth Of the rose
water of commerce tmade from four drops Of
rose oil to an ounce of distilled water and
five cents worth of ordinary gycerine, but
by using the genuine rose water made by
distillation and the chemically pure glycerine
obtained by second refning-which cannot
be had at every druggsts-you will get
much better article that the bath of Isis
ever was.
ats commercial side never struck me, but
I do not think there is commercial side. 1t
is known to all scholars and to all chemists
1t is now the base of all lotions used for the
skin. The refined Egyptian rabbit adipocere
is our glycerine Rose water is preferable to
lotus water, but you can use either-both are
common. Every woman uses rose water and
glycerine, and the majority use them to-
gether. Very few women know where the
the oldest took in the world, now in the
National library in Paris-I mean the one
written by Prince Hotep and taken from his
coffin after it had lain beside him for over
), 500 years. but this is because no one cares,
so long as the lotion serves its purpose
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